Is Black Friday Moving Online?

Reporter Stacey Delo visited downtown San Francisco on Black Friday and found that the stores weren’t that busy.

In an interview, Andrew Eisner, director of community and content for online electronics store Retrevo.com, told Stacey that it had been a busier day online than in stores. “We may be starting to see a trend toward a Black Friday online or even Thanksgiving Thursday online,” he said.

Mr. Eisner said that his site has found that TVs are the number one item shopper are looking for, followed by laptops and netbooks, which he said may have been fueled by the release of Microsoft Windows 7.

Mr. Eisner also pointed out that some of the online deals were better than the offline deals. For instance, he said the prices were better at the Black Friday sale at MacMall.com than at Apple’s one-day Black Friday sale.